[Hands0n]

A friend called up yesterday for some help and assistance with a neighbour who had just bought a Laptop and 3 mobile broadband contract from PC World.

Having got the Laptop home and started to set it up for the neighbour, who is not PC literate, she started to run into troubles. Using my well-worn advice the friend tried to establish a Googlemail account for the neighbour but could not get to the Googlemail site. The URL was accepted but no content was displayed. However, when she tried the same thing on her own laptop and WiFi from next door there were no problems. Same if the new Laptop was hooked into her WiFi.

The neighbour is relying completely on the 3 mobile broadband for their Internet. It is their first experience having seen all and sundry around them with their PCs, Laptops etc all happily using the 'net. But try as they might there was absolutely no way that Internet Explorer would display even the login page of Googlemail. All they got was a blank browser page, not even a message from 3 saying that the content was restricted.

So that is my question - does 3 purposely block Googlemail, and come to that any other non-3 email websites? It's pretty shabby if they do!!

[3GScottishUser]

I have not had any problems using 3 mobile broadband accessing my POP3 account and my hotmail accounts. I use Windows Live Mail as the client to access all of those. I also use my work e-mail account using First Class with 3.

Last got some mail today using 3 out and about so perhaps there may be some other issue?

[miffed]

I remember when needed to rely on Three Broadband on moving house , I encountered loads of problems (some where documented on here) , Here is a little list of things I simply couldn't do , even when the connection speed appeared bearable

1) Access ebay usefully , I coud get to the homepage and individual categories , but could not "drill down" or perform any searches , or view individual items

2) Could not access the Autotrader site whatsoever

3) Could not get Gmail via the webpage or the Notifier

4) Was unable to login to many forums ! Talk3g was seemingly the only one that I use that I could log into !!

5) I was also in desperate need of getting some car insurance , I HATE talking on the phone to these idiots so usually do it online , this was simply not possible , the quote engines would start and then report an error 30 seconds into the quote

...I am sure there were other problems too , but can't remember details off the top of my head , I do recall that (when using Linux) I managed to change the DNS servers for a while , and this worked wonders !

[solo12002]

Of course this could just be down to the fact that gmail has been and is having problems over the last few days. Of topic how does three software install onto Linux?? as I might buy the bro in law a chaep notbook to use while in england rether than carrying a laptop